To make sense of the myriad new and existing products and services in the marketplace, consum­ ers construct and use categorical representations to classify, interpret, and understand information they receive about these products and services. We define a consumer category as a set of products, services, brands, or other marketing entities, states, or events that appear, to the consumer, relate...

BACKGROUND Coverage of civil registration and vital statistics varies globally, with most deaths in Africa and Asia remaining either unregistered or registered without cause of death. One important constraint has been a lack of fit-for-purpose tools for registering deaths and assigning causes in situations where no doctor is involved. Verbal autopsy (interviewing care-givers and witnesses to de...

given the potential for carbon storage in plant tissues, this approach has a serious interest in recent decades. therefore, the ability of carbon storage in astragalus gossypinus and astragalus parrowianus were examined in part of alpine pastures in kermanshah province. after determining the representative districts, according to 4 main aspect and 5 category elevation was determined representat...

Epidemiological studies have demonstrated inconsistent associations between tea consumption and mortality of all cancers, CVD and all causes. To obtain quantitative overall estimates, we conducted a dose-response meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies. A literature search in PubMed and Embase up to April 2015 was conducted for all relevant papers published. Random-effects models were used ...

I n 1999, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) brought together a group of experts to assess and categorize agents that could be used in bioterrorism attacks. The Category A, B, and C biological bioterrorism agent list (Appendix 1) was derived from a consensus of that group. 1 Nearly all of these potential bioterrorism agents are zoonotic in nature. Veterinarians are considered ...